Director, Corporate Development

Hearst Health is seeking a Director, Corporate Development to serve as a senior deal lead and strategic partner to the Head of Strategy & Corporate Development. As the second and most senior professional joining the function, you will have significant ownership across corporate development—from identifying and evaluating opportunities to quarterbacking active transactions and helping shape portfolio-level strategy. This is a long-term investment mandate with a 10+ year horizon for compounding value.

About The Team

The mission of Hearst Health is to guide healthcare organizations by delivering essential intelligence and software that improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of care. With over 40 years of innovation, Hearst Health companies—FDB, Homecare Homebase, MCG, MHK, QGenda, and Zynx Health—elevate care by informing and empowering participants across the health journey.

Responsibilities

• Lead active deal evaluations by owning workplans, data room coordination, diligence tracking, timelines, and cross-functional and advisor management from evaluation through closing.
• Develop investment recommendations as the primary author of investment theses, financial models, investment committee memos, and board/management presentations.
• Form and defend an independent point of view on opportunities using qualitative and strategic considerations (e.g., market position, competitive advantage, demand durability) alongside financial analysis.
• Generate evidence logs, document findings, and create summary memos to build a searchable proprietary insight library.
• Partner with management teams of Hearst Health operating businesses to translate their strategic priorities into market analyses that inform direction.
• Perform comprehensive market research and competitor analysis to shape strategy, deal sourcing, and opportunity assessment.
• Connect opportunities to portfolio strategy by identifying adjacencies, capability gaps, and inorganic growth themes across Hearst Health’s six businesses.
• Build sector expertise between deal cycles through expert networks, banker relationships, industry conferences, and analysis of early-stage/venture activity.
• Develop and maintain a disciplined sourcing pipeline with a ranked, auditable view of potential platform and tuck-in opportunities.
• Build trusted external and internal relationships with bankers, management teams, advisors, and Hearst leadership.
• Strengthen the corporate development function by leveraging AI tools, improving processes, and building the business case for future hiring.

Qualifications

Must-Have Qualifications

• Significant experience in strategy, corporate development, management consulting, private equity, or a similarly rigorous environment, with demonstrated ability to lead complex end-to-end transactions with limited oversight.
• Strong business and investment judgment, including the ability to form, articulate, and defend an independent perspective.
• Excellent project leadership skills and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders, advisors, workstreams, and deadlines through complex deal processes.
• Executive presence and communication skills to build credibility with senior bankers, management teams, and corporate leadership.
• Strong financial modeling skills and fluency in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to develop expertise in unfamiliar sectors quickly.
• A self-directed, collaborative approach with a focus on depth, selectivity, and quality of judgment over transaction volume.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developed through a leading management consultancy, private equity firm, corporate development team, or comparable strategy/investment environment.
• Exposure to healthcare, healthcare IT, information services, or software businesses.
• Experience evaluating opportunities through both strategic and financial lenses and connecting investments to broader portfolio strategy.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $200,000–$250,000.
• Generous health and wellness benefits.
• Competitive paid time off.
• Financial programs including 401(k) matching and tuition assistance.
• Additional perks such as company matching for charitable donations.